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HYPOTHEkids, a K-12 education initiative of Harlem Biospace in partnership with Columbia Engineering and Teachers College, introduces students to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by having them design, prototype and test a biomedical device.
Its Hk Maker Lab, a six-week summer program in Columbia’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, teaches the foundations of engineering and culminates in a pitch event to executives in the biomedical community.
Full article: news.columbia.edu/hypothekids
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery will have a new home on Columbia University's Manhattanville campus. Deborah Cullen, director and chief curator of the Gallery, discusses her vision inspired by the new location.
La-Verna Fountain, vice president for Facilities and Operations at Columbia University, discusses the job training and career opportunities the Manhattanville campus creates for the surrounding community.
Marcelo Velez, vice president for Manhattanville Development, discusses the University's commitment to sustainable urban design by maximizing energy efficiency, limiting carbon emissions and creating pedestrian-friendly spaces.
Renzo Piano, principal and founder of Renzo Piano Building Workshop describes the inspiration for the design of the campus.
Thomas M. Jessell, codirector, and Sarah Woolley, principal investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute discuss how the Jerome L. Greene Science Center in the new Manhattanville campus was designed for discovery. The innovative space encourages exploring the complexities of mind, brain and behavior.
Christina McInerney, president and CEO of the Jerome L. Greene Foundation, discusses how the Jerome L. Greene Science Center on the new Manhattanville campus will engage the community and be at the forefront of mind, brain, behavior research.
A healthy, thriving community benefits Columbia and its West Harlem neighbors. Kofi Boateng, executive director of the West Harlem Development Corporation, and Sheena Wright, president and CTO of United Way-New York, discuss the impact Columbia's Manhattanville campus will have on Harlem and surrounding community.
Van Tran is a second-generation refugee. His father left China at age 5, after the 1949 Communist revolution, eventually moving to Vietnam, where Tran was born. But history repeated itself, and in 1990, when Tran was 10, he, his parents and two of his four siblings fled Saigon.“
Jessica Prata and her team collaborate with departments across Columbia to help reduce the University’s impact on the environment.
From online privacy to massive leaks of classified government documents, data breaches have become part of modern society. But in recent months cybersecurity has become a new wild card in our nation’s political process.
Earlier this summer, the Democratic National Committee’s computers were hacked, reportedly by Russian state actors. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released a trove of Hillary Clinton’s emails, with promises of more damaging revelations to come. And in August, the National Security Agency’s own hackers may have had some of their own hacking tools stolen by, yes, hackers…
Dear fellow members of the Columbia community:
Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) reversed a position it has held for the past 12 years and decided that students at private universities may be treated as employees for the purposes of the National Labor Relations Act when they are appointed to positions as teaching assistants or research assistants. The decision overturns a 2004 ruling involving Brown University.
More than a decade has passed since Carla Shedd began her research about urban adolescents in Chicago. As a Ph.D. student in sociology at Northwestern, she found neighborhoods dominated by gangs, 13-year-old students carrying guns and schools that were deeply divided along racial and social lines.
Not much has changed.
“One would have hoped that we wouldn’t still be talking about inequality in 2016, but we are,” said Shedd, an assistant professor of sociology at Columbia and author of the recently published Unequal City: Race, Schools and Perceptions of Injustice. “It’s not just…